König allied with Schelsky and Popper against Frankfurt school criticism.

Evidence

It was in the playing off of reality not only against the ideologies of dictators but alsoand much more energeticallyagainst the ideologies' of utopians and rebels, that the pure’ sociologist König found himself in agreement with the technocratic commentator on the times, Schelsky, and with the neo-liberal theoretician of science, Popper. Even Schelsky, who with a realistic sociological [realsoziologisch] eye' had welcomed a withdrawal from the public and political sphere into one's own family and career as a highly satisfactory tracing back of what is abstract and programmatic in social thought to the experience and objectivity of each personal existence’, had managed, at least in one passage, to accuse the Frankfurt theoreticians of having virtually totalitarian tendencies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2406

Categorization

• XREF: Popper’s anti-utopian stance connects to the reader’s broader engagement with critical rationalism versus Frankfurt critical theory.